Sunday, September 19, 2021
York Theatre RoyalTonderai Munyevu’s semi-autographical show addresses Zimbabwe’s traumatic history with honesty and humour
Clothes hang in broken rows above the bare stage (Nicolai Hart…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMSunday, September 12, 2021
Curve, LeicesterAnthony Almeida’s staging is driven by Peter Forbes and Oliver Johnstone, magnificent in the roles of Big Daddy and Brick
In this new production of Tennessee Williams’s P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, September 5, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterMichael Morpurgo’s story of a family fleeing Dresden in 1945 resonates today, animated by Alison Reid’s uncanny acting
Michael Morpurgo’s 2010 story presents a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, August 29, 2021
Pitlochry Festival theatreAlan Watt is superb in an adaptation of two Chekhov short stories in this pioneering theatre’s fine new outdoor space
Pitlochry Festival theatre has been much in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Traverse 1, Edinburgh; Newhailes House and Gardens, Musselburgh; Pleasance; Assembly Roxy, EdinburghDomhnall Gleeson is outstanding in Enda Walsh’s revelatory new play about attitudes to m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, August 15, 2021
Coole Park, County GalwayDruid Theatre’s fine production of Thomas Kilroy’s adaptation finds rich resonance in the grounds of Lady Gregory’s Coole Park estate
Druid Theatre Company is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, August 1, 2021
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Garden theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonPhillip Breen’s RSC romp lacks a feel for Shakespeare’s text and fails its female characters – but this new open-air venue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, July 25, 2021
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonApril De Angelis and Lucy Rivers bring 18th-century London to scabrous life in their boozy new musical satire with an excellent ensemble
The opening number i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, July 11, 2021
Crucible, SheffieldWood’s trademarks are all in place in her talent-show debut drama, first performed at the Crucible in 1978, though it feels somewhat dated now
The talents that made the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, July 4, 2021
Watermill, NewburyA green adaptation of Shakespeare’s romcom focuses on the climate crisis, but takes its time to get the blood stirring
Duke Senior, banished by his usurping brother, prai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSunday, June 27, 2021
Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterNeither too Disney nor too Kipling, this witty staging also carries an ecological message
Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera – Kipling may have created them b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
Piece Hall, Halifax; now touringAmanda Whittington’s new play is a stirring account of a Yorkshire women’s football team playing on despite FA opposition in the 1920s
The sky above the e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMSaturday, June 12, 2021
Two sets of neighbours from 2020 and 1942 interact in an entertaining tale of love and endurance
If the title leads you to expect hallmark Alan Ayckbourn split set and inventive staging, the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Theatre Royal Bath and touringThe actor and director gives a compelling performance of the poet’s wartime epic in this solo show
What an achievement! Simply to recite TS Eliot’s 1943 poe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, May 30, 2021
Barn, CirencesterCat Goscovitch’s gripping play explores the Russian troll factory that used social media to manipulate the Brexit vote
Manipulation of public opinion to political ends is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, May 23, 2021
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughJulie Hesmondhalgh recounts a tale of rediscovery and romance in a solo show perfect for live theatre’s return
Somewhere in outer space, the Actor tells …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, May 16, 2021
Available onlineBased on a fin-de-siecle novel loved by Oscar Wilde, this satanic stage musical has snappy songs and a devilish wit
This light, witty, devilishly well delivered “play with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSunday, May 2, 2021
Mick Lally theatre, Galway; available onlineDrawing on her early writings, Colm Tóibín captures the essence of the late Irish poet in this transformative livestreamed production
Eavan Bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, January 24, 2021
Available onlineAs this year’s event goes virtual, five newly commissioned videos showcase the diversity of its artists
My heart went out to Jonathan Agnew, having to commentate on England…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, December 6, 2020
Eva O’Connor’s piece about ‘madness, heartbreak and condiments’ loses its bite in this online performance
Writer-performer Eva O’Connor describes her latest play, Mustard, as a “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, November 8, 2020
Crucible, SheffieldThree fine actors portray more than 35 characters over decades in Mojisola Elufowoju’s impressive production of Oladipo Agboluaje’s new play
The bad news is: a second …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, October 24, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseA fun-filled tale of local authority corruption
This new, outdoor show from the innovative company imitating the dog (ITD) is a sanguinary tale of local authority corruption …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMSunday, September 27, 2020
Old Vic, LondonMichael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are magnificent in Matthew Warchus’s enthralling livestreamed production of Brian Friel’s 1979 play
Does faith healing come…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, September 19, 2020
St Luke’s Bombed Out Church, Liverpool theatre festival
Prejudice and passion powers Maria Paul’s oral history of three white women who married black men in Liverpool 8
Performers are th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMSunday, August 30, 2020
Minack theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall; Grosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterAn unflappable duo braved the elements in Willy Russell’s comedy drama, while Shakespeare’s crowd-pleaser ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSunday, March 22, 2020
Crucible, SheffieldDirector Robert Hastie makes the most of the now-nostalgic shared space between audience and cast
Writing a review, today, feels strange. Coriolanus was the last performan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghThe comic talents of Elaine C Smith and Steven McNicoll can’t save Denise Mina’s stilted, gender-switching adaptation of a Bertolt Brecht comedyBertolt Brecht and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Storyhouse, ChesterFour female undergraduates in 1890s Cambridge struggle for equality in this buoyant production of Jessica Swale’s 2013 classroom classicA renowned expert has come to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMSunday, February 23, 2020
Viaduct theatre, HalifaxThis adaptation of JM Barrie’s 1901 romcom doesn’t always hit the mark, but it roars to the sweetest conclusionTo some readers, the name Quality Street may conjur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Northern Stage, Newcastle upon TyneSet against the upheaval of world events, music from folk trio the Young’uns and animation combine to tell the story of the young anti-fascist activist
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMSunday, February 2, 2020
Leeds PlayhouseDavid Greig’s 2001 drama about the doctor who founded an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto continues to educate in this atmospheric production
The first thing we see as we ente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM 
